Acer :: Extensa 4420 SD Boot

Oct 14, 2008

I have Acer Extensa 4420-5239

i want to boot (linux) from SD

i have all my files in SD and i have made it bootable

problem

My bios doesnt support sd boot (as far as i know)

is there anyway i can boot from sd?

i was thinking a boot loader but i am not sure how to

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Acer :: Extensa 4420- CPU Temps

Oct 13, 2008

I have the extensa 4420, today I was in class and I was just typing notes and I noticed that my cooling fan was quite noticable so I turned the fan always on function to "off" and the fan turned off and it was nice and quiet. i watched the temps hover around 38 but when the temps hit 41 (according to NHC) the fan kicked in at a good low speed. the NHC was setting the CPU to stay at 800mhz per core so I was wondering if that is a good temp? I have experience in using thermal paste, would that help lower the temps enough to stay under 41 degrees?

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Acer :: Extensa 4420 Ram Upgrade To 3GB

Oct 14, 2008

I am considering upgrading my 4420-5239. If I add a 2GB stick to make it 3gb, do you think it will be any better?

I am also considering replacing the HDD with SSD. My machine just gets too hot, so I am wondering if switching to SSD will cool it down...

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Acer :: Extensa 4420 Won't Power Up

Jan 5, 2009

formatted C installed XP Pro and all Acer drivers, worked fine for a week, now when I try to boot it only comes on for a short time with no start up screen showing, shuts off on AC or DC

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Acer :: Extensa 4420- Connection

May 22, 2010

I have an extensa 4420. just recently moved into a home where the internet and utilities were already setup. They have a linksys wireless router. WRT54G they have a network and a password. When i enter this into my e-net management screen it doesnt work it asks me for a WEP key but i do not have the WEP key nor do the owners of the home. Is there any way possible i can enter the password to connect or set something differently?

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Acer :: Extensa 4420-5239 Upgradeable

Feb 1, 2009

I got a Acer Extensa 4420-5239 in September 08 and now im running into problems. I want to upgrade my video card and RAM but i need to know if it even is upgradeable. If someone can tell me if it is and what Graphic cards and RAM are compatible with it that would be great. Also if it is upgradeable I was going to have the Geek Squad Upgrade it, if they can.

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Acer :: Extensa 4420 Improving Video

Dec 7, 2009

This machine comes with the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 integrated card and 2gb of RAM. In Bios I see allocated memory set at 256mb and it goes no higher.

I was thinking of increasing RAM to 4gb. What I am trying to do is watch video, for example, tv programs on Hulu and what I get now is choppy picture and freezing.

Would increasing RAM to the max of 4gb correct this or not?

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Acer :: Extensa 4420 Video Driver

May 9, 2009

I recently pruchased an Acer Extensa 4420 and converted from VISTA to XP. I am having problems with installing the video driver. I down loaded the video driver from ACER's web site but it will not install. I had to down load the wireless driver from Dell and I was wondering if there was a similar trick for the video driver.

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Acer :: Extensa 4420- How To Use Built-in Camera

Feb 24, 2009

My Extensa 4420 has a webcam. I can turn it on and see ugly pictures of me staring at the computer screen. The question I have, is what can I do with the camera. The computer does not seem to have come with any software that I can use to record video. Is there any free software that will do this?

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Acer :: Connecting Extensa 4420 To Sony Bravia

Mar 1, 2009

When I connect my note book to my TV, using a VGA cable, the picture on both TV and PC starts to flicker after a few seconds.

The hard drive is working and the CPU runs at a 100% when they are connected.

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Acer :: Extensa 4420-5817 Display Driver

Nov 3, 2008

I have wiped out Vista from this machine and installed XP Professional. All have been installed fine except Wireless and Display drivers. I got wireless driver from gateway and it worked great.

I have done every thing as outlined in different threads on this forum and all other resources including acer north america and europe sites to install display driver but i still keep on getting the "set up did not find a driver compatible with your hardware or operating system" error.

The display driver specified on the sticker is 896 MB ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 Hyper Memory.

I am able to install the "SMBUS v.5.10.1000.6" from acer europe site without any problem.

I have upgraded the BIOS also to v1.18 from v1.17.

All the rest of the drivers i am able to install from the Vista Application and Driver back up DVD including the webcam that i created before taking out vista.

This machine is AMD Athelon 64X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-57.

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Acer :: Extensa 4420 - PQSERVICE Factory Setting

Jul 29, 2009

my Acer Extensa 4420. A few days ago while on my laptop the BSOD suddenly popped up and my laptop shut down. A restarted it and while it did log in, I got notices saying a lot of stuff was corrupt. I ran chkdsk to see if i could diagnose the issue, and it stated the system volume was corrupt. As time went by using windows became erratic. I decided to try to restore my acer back to factory settings using the eRecovery program. This program would stop working every time right before the process began. Eventually windows stopped booting up at all. leaving my at a boot screen the endlessly looped. I installed Ubuntu shortly after, and managed to get my PQSERVICE partition recognized by the GRUB bootloader and Ubuntu itself (as a mounted drive). The problem is that whenever I do boot to the PQSERVICE partition and look through the options in the recovery center, there is no restore to factory default settings.

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Acer :: Bluetooth Drivers For Extensa 4420-5910

Jan 31, 2009

I have been looking for the bluetooth drivers for my Acer Extensa 4420-5910 for a week with no luck. I believe they are Broadcom drivers but I am not sure. None of the drivers on Acer's website work. Broadcom's download page is also down. Driverguide does not appear to have them either. Acer doesn't have a "Parts List" for this laptop so they cannot tell me exactly what bluetooth drivers I will need, and unfortunately I am not about to crack a new laptop open to find out. At the minimum if someone could just tell me what the name of the correct driver is I would be satisfied. This is for 32-bit Vista.

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Acer :: Extensa 4420 Wireless And Wired Internet

Oct 27, 2008

i got an Extensa 4420, and after hearing everyone say vista is out, I installed XP.

Im new to PC's [been a mac user for years] and this is confusing me.
The laptop has 2 partitions - C: and D:
Vista is on C: so i installed xp on D:

It appears that i can now only access XP and cannot ever boot into vista off C: is that true?

Also, when running XP i have no internet via the ethernet cable nor the wireless card that comes with this laptop. Can someone explain what drivers i need to install to make those work?

I got the Extensa_4200 driver folder off the website, but i am clueless as to which need to be installed - as im new to PC.
Any advice is much appreciated.

I have successfully figured out the audio and video drivers but now i need the internet and wireless to work.

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Acer Extensa 4420 :: Upgrading Vista To Windows 7

Oct 4, 2014

I'm having trouble upgrading from Vista to windows 7. I have purchased a legal copy of 32 bit windows 7 home premium, same version a Vista.
 
I tried the update instal to preserve my programs & settings. I got an error and system reverted back to Vista.
 
I then tried a boot, fresh install. The windows disk loaded , but I ended up with Blue Screen of Death.
 
I have downloaded all the latest drivers for the the Extensa 4420 from Acer's site. Is there a special version required for the 4420?

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Acer Extensa 4420 :: Cannot Recover System - ERecovery Will No Longer Run

Oct 4, 2014

I purchased the factory "Recovery" CDs. The problem is they will not recover the system.

Also on a 2nd HD I find that the Acer program eRecovery will no longer run.

This appears that Acer sels computers and doesn't provide the software needed to do basic recovery actions we could do under W-95

Acer will also sell you a "Recovery" CD sets that do not actually allow you to recover your system so you have a functioning PC.

 V2.5.4015 is what I show in my corrupt file.

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Acer :: Extensa 4420- Error Message (update Your ATI Graphics Driver)

Dec 18, 2008

Every time I start up my Extensa 4420, I get the following error message window:

"The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version of your enabled graphics adapter. Please update your ATI graphics driver, or enable your adapter using the Displays Manager."

Why is this happening? If I go into the device manager, it says that the graphics adapter is working. If I tell it to check for updated drivers it says that the driver I have installed is the most current one. Everything seems to work fine on the computer. How can I stop the message from popping up every time?

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Acer Extensa 4420 :: Unable To Restore Old Vista OS - Installing Win 7 32bit

Oct 12, 2014

Have Extensa 4420. Been unable to restore old Vista OS so decided to move up to Win 7 32 bit. Started the install from DVD but got error message that I could not install on the system partition as it was "reserved" by Acer. This is half of the HDD.

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Acer :: Calling All SamaritansMy Extensa 4420-5237 Will Not Complete A Vista Home Premium (retail) Installation

Jun 21, 2009

This is a laptop without Recovery Discs, where the original drive partitions were erased and reformatted as 1 big partition. During Vista installation, it always reboots just as Vista is on the verge of "Completing Installation". So near and yet so far. The BIOS shows the hard drive as an IDE drive - even though this is clearly a SATA drive. Is this a driver problem? Do I need to load SATA drivers before having Vista go through the installation?

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Acer Extensa 5420 :: Will Not Boot With SSD Drive Installed

Sep 15, 2014

I have upgraded the OS to Win 7 Home Premium, 32 bit, and had the hard drive upgraded to a 320 GB SATA drive. The system will boot flawlessly with the SATA drive installed, it will not boot with the 500Gb Samsung 840 EVO SSD drive installed.
 
When the power button is pressed the power light lights up, the hard drive activity light lights up, the CPU cooling fan comes on, the DVD drive light comes on and you hear a couple of clicks then it turns off.
 
Is there a special setting in BIOS that needs to be made or is this notebook simply unable to use an internal SSD drive?

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Acer :: 4420 XP Change

Jan 11, 2009

Just picked up a 4420-5910.

Big problems...I want to switch to XP Pro.

Formatting for XP Pro but Snoop mentioned an Acer Downgrade .iso, but it was never mentioned as to what this wa, where to get it, and what it does.

I did a quick format this morning but I could not load the broadcom drivers...got a message :cannot install this...

Now I am trying a COMPLETE format and will see what happens.

I do not have a hard-wire internet connection available where I am, but I have a second laptop whichcan get what I need via wi-fi.

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Acer :: 4420 Audio

Nov 10, 2008

When i plug in my headphone jack the speakers don't mute and there is no sound coming thru the headphones. When I do a test on the control panel, the headphones beep, so they are working. I think I downloaded some free software ( VLC player, slim version. some other softwares downloaded with it. don't know which ones) the audio problem started after this.

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Acer :: 4420 (came With No Os Or Recovery Features)

Feb 24, 2009

I have just installed a OS on my new acer 4420- (came with no os or recovery features).........It doesn't even recognize the wifi..........What do I need to do in this situation? I need to get it online to download drivers.

The only "recovery" cd's I have will not run. They are .ISO files or something.....
Someone help a noob out.........

I do have a portable usb zip drive, but I can't figure out how to transfer files from one computer to the other, and then open and run them.

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Acer :: 4420 Freezes When Watching Movies

Jan 16, 2009

What's the issue with this? In cpu-z the speed shows 798mhz, it's supposed to run at 1.8 dual core correct?

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Acer :: No Wireless Adapter Recognized 4420-5963

Feb 25, 2009

I have been able to install most all of the missing drivers after my new OS install.......

The only problem I'm having is the wireless adapter is not recognized in device manager. There is a "network controller" that has no driver. I have installed the broadcom driver from acer site, but it won't work.

When I press the wireless button, it will toggle between wlan enabled, and wlan disabled, but I can't figure it out

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Acer :: EMachines EMD620-5777 (basically A 4420)

Nov 12, 2008

I recently bought a eMachines eMD620 from best buy for $299. I also have an Acer 4420-5239 with an onboard ATI x1250 which I got on clearance at Office Depot. The eMachines laptop looks almost exactly like the Acer 4420 except it uses a new low-power AMD processor called the 2650e (which I can't find much information on) and has the onboard ATI x1250.

My first question is: Does the emachines eMD620 use the same socket S1 motherboard as the acer 4420-5239? I put more ram in the eMachines laptop and looks like it is the same motherboard that uses the AMD S1 socket as the Acer 4420, except the heatsink is different.

Second question: Has anyone upgraded the processor on the eMachines eMD620 or taken it appart? I am going to upgrade the AMD TK-57 that came in the Acer 4420 with a TL-66 or a TL-64 because they are dirt cheap on ebay these days. I then want to put the AMD TK-57 in the EMachines eMD620.

Third question: The press release I see for the AMD 2650e shows that another low-power dual core processor called the 3250e is also available, but I can't find anyone selling it anywhere. Does anyone have one or know a place to get one? Are they both socket S1?

Last Question: Has anyone installed an internal Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive in the Acer 4420? Are the AMD processor and ATI video card enough to handle playback? The HD-DVD laptop drives are also pretty cheap on ebay and I was hoping to experiment a little. I have heard conflicting statements about system requirements depending on the playback software used.

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Acer :: Extenza 4420 - Cracked Screen After 8 Days

Oct 16, 2008

I bought an Extenza 4420 a few weeks ago, and the screen cracked after only a week. I did not drop it or step on it or abuse it. Acer told me a replacement screen would cost $450 plus shipping costs. This doesn't seem right. The customer service at the store where I bought it, and also when I called Acer's customer service line offered no help at all.

My question is if there is anything I can do about it other than replacing the screen at my cost?

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Acer :: Acer Extensa 4630Z - Wireless Driver

Nov 17, 2008

I just installed XP Pro on my Acer Extensa 4630Z and I installed all the drivers successfully but the wireless driver. I tried all the drivers from acer's support site [url] none of them work. I also tried what worked for Davoucci with same laptop but this driver also doesn't work for me

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Acer :: Extensa 5630g

Jan 28, 2010

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I installed Windows XP SP 2 without SATA and everything was running perfectly exept i was getting BSOD from time to time . Recently (one month ago) i installed Windows 7 .

Performance in ordinary work and in programs is now excellent but...... There is another side of the medal. PC games . When i intsalled ACER graphicks drivers i runned my games with stuttering . Also with ATI drivers(9.12) modded by Mobility driver threre is no stuttering but i can play only in low resoluitions like 800 600, 640 480 etc. What is the problem ? I really dont like XP and i like Windows 7.

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Acer :: Extensa Overheating

Apr 26, 2009

Ever since I bought this laptop I've had an issue of it shutting itself down. Almost always while watching youtube videos. I found out about the handy little tool called coretemp and I see my processors running about 68+ nearly all the time. When I have websites loaded that have flash animations, ads, videos (youtube), it only gets hotter and hotter. It nearly always reaches 90+ (Celsius) and then shuts down.

I read about it needing a bios update for many people who say they have the problem with the laptop screen going black, but I think mine is heat related.

My laptop runs around 68 when idle and when busy it gets hot. Right now I have Google Chrome open with two tabs, one is this webpage and the other is gmail and its running at 75 celsius. Performance tab in task manager says it has a processor load of only 1%.

I keep a watch on the temperature and as long as I start closing programs and windows when it reaches around 80 it will start to cool down. So as long as I can keep an eye on it the laptop will run fine for days with no problems. If I forget to check and it gets too hot it'll shut down. I'll check the logs and sure enough the last few lines of the last log file will look something like this ...

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